Rowlands, A. V. et al. J. Sports Sci. 41, 333–341 (2023). To determine whether the association between self-reported walking pace and all-cause mortality (ACM) persists across categories of accelerometer-assessed physical activity status. Data from 93,709 UK Biobank participants were included. Physical activity was assessed using wrist-worn accelerometers for 7-days. Participants accumulating <150 min/week moderate-to-vigorous- activity were classed as “inactive”, ≥150 …
Kerin, F. et al. Sports Med. – Open 9, 75 (2023). Hamstring strain injuries (HSI) are one of the most common sport-related injuries. They have a high injury burden and a high recurrence rate. The development of novel muscle injury grading systems has provided new insights into the possible impact of injury location on the time to return to play …
K Okholm Kryger, A Wang, R Mehta, Fm Impellizzeri, A Massey, M Harrison, R Glendinning & A McCall (2023) This review aimed, as part of a larger FIFA project aiming to steer women’s football research, to scope literature on any level of competitive football for women, to understand the current quantity of research on women’s football injuries. The study reviewed …
C.F.L. Mulder, A.C. van der Vlist, M. van Middelkoop, et al., Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (in press) Objectives: To determine whether baseline physical tests have a prognostic value on patient-reported outcomes in Achilles tendinopathy. Design: Prospective cohort study, secondary analysis of data from a randomized trial. Methods: Patients with chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy performed a progressive calf …
McKenzie A, Larequi S-A, Hams A, Headrick J, Whiteley R, Duhig S. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2023;00:1-17. Aim To synthesize and assess the literature for shoulder pain and injury risk factors in competitive swimmers. Design Systematic review with best-evidence synthesis. Data Sources CINHAL, SportDiscus, Scorpus, PubMed, and Embase databases from 1966 to April 30 2022. Search and Inclusion …
Drew, M. K. et al. Sports Med. 53, 1479–1489 (2023). Enabling athletes to achieve peak performances while also maintaining high levels of health is contextually complex. We aim to describe what a ‘health system’ is and apply the essential functions of stewardship, financing, provision of services and resource generation to an Australian high-performance sport context. We introduce a fifth function …
Cosh, S. M., McNeil, D. G. & Tully, P. J. J. Sci. Med. Sport 26, 338–344 (2023). Better understanding of compulsive exercise is needed in sports medicine. Whilst compulsive exercise may impact mental health, the limited research exploring the relationship between compulsive exercise and psychosocial outcomes is equivocal. The majority of studies have examined eating disorder populations where the eating …
Till, K. et al. Eur J Sport Sci 1–15 (2023) This study quantified and compared the collision and non-collision match characteristics across age categories (i.e. U12, U14, U16, U18, Senior) for both amateur and elite playing standards from Tier 1 rugby union nations (i.e. England, South Africa, New Zealand). Two-hundred and one male matches (5911 min ball-in-play) were coded using …
Hortobágyi, T. et al. Sports Med. – Open 9, 41 (2023). Background The quantity and quality of skeletal muscle are important determinants of daily function and metabolic health. Various forms of physical exercise can improve muscle function, but this effect can be inconsistent and has not been systematically examined across the health-neurological disease continuum. The purpose of this systematic scoping …
Patricios, J. S. et al. Br. J. Sports Med. 57, 695–711 (2023). For over two decades, the Concussion in Sport Group has held meetings and developed five international statements on concussion in sport. This 6th statement summarises the processes and outcomes of the 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Amsterdam on 27–30 October 2022 and should be …